diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c298411e432..5bf9a766b4d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Note that this project **does not** adhere to [Semantic Versioning](http://semve
 - We fixed an issue where the file path is invisible in dark theme. [#7382](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7382)
 - We fixed an issue where the secondary sorting is not working for some special fields. [#7015](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7015)
 - We fixed an issue where changing the font size makes the font size field too small. [#7085](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7085)
+- We fixed an issue where the Unicode to Latex formatter produced wrong results for characters with a codepoint higher than Character.MAX_VALUE. [#7387](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7387)
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatter.java b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatter.java
index cc5fc9f350e..ee7a663da76 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatter.java
@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@ public String format(String text) {
                 Integer cpNext = result.codePointAt(i + 1);
                 String code = HTMLUnicodeConversionMaps.ESCAPED_ACCENTS.get(cpNext);
                 if (code == null) {
-                    sb.append((char) cpCurrent);
+                    // skip next index to avoid reading surrogate as a separate char
+                    if (!Character.isBmpCodePoint(cpCurrent)) {
+                        i++;
+                    }
+                    sb.appendCodePoint(cpCurrent);
                 } else {
                     sb.append("{\\").append(code).append('{').append((char) cpCurrent).append("}}");
                     consumed = true;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/util/strings/HTMLUnicodeConversionMaps.java b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/util/strings/HTMLUnicodeConversionMaps.java
index e1b0ec49016..f26952c9e0a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/util/strings/HTMLUnicodeConversionMaps.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/util/strings/HTMLUnicodeConversionMaps.java
@@ -760,7 +760,8 @@ public class HTMLUnicodeConversionMaps {
             {"64259", "", "ffi"}, // ffi ligature (which LaTeX solves by itself)
             {"64260", "", "ffl"}, // ffl ligature (which LaTeX solves by itself)
             {"119978", "Oscr", "$\\mathcal{O}$"}, // script capital O -- possibly use \mathscr
-            {"119984", "Uscr", "$\\mathcal{U}$"} // script capital U -- possibly use \mathscr
+            {"119984", "Uscr", "$\\mathcal{U}$"}, // script capital U -- possibly use \mathscr
+            {"120598", "", "$\\epsilon$"}, // mathematical italic epsilon U+1D716 -- requires amsmath
 
     };
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatterTest.java b/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatterTest.java
index 5b87c87661d..865c4a8da79 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatterTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/bibtexfields/UnicodeToLatexFormatterTest.java
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ void formatMultipleUnicodeCharacters() {
         assertEquals("{{\\aa}}{\\\"{a}}{\\\"{o}}", formatter.format("\u00E5\u00E4\u00F6"));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void formatHighCodepointUnicodeCharacter() {
+        assertEquals("$\\epsilon$", formatter.format("\uD835\uDF16"));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void formatExample() {
         assertEquals("M{\\\"{o}}nch", formatter.format(formatter.getExampleInput()));